Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having talked for an hour about wild animals the teacher posed a question to one of her class . |
| 2 | And without the new grant for golden hellos the World would have lost its research workers . |
| 3 | Maybe after all he 'd have been better off like his Dad , quietly pushing papers round a desk in an office at the Gas Board for nine hours a day for nearly fifty years . |
| 4 | After considering this aspect of the case for some moments the Substitute remarked : ‘ You chose your man well . |
| 5 | I 'm not suggesting that we chain Peter to Caliban for eighteen hours a day . |
| 6 | The Department of Transport wants to ban them from the ancient route for sixty days a year . |
| 7 | They also hope to develop some kind of a synchronised timetable to provide five or six ships sailing at least every hour for 364 days a year . |
| 8 | Ensuring that services providers make support for informal carers a high priority . |
| 9 | Large families eke out an existence for six days a week on a few loaves and margarine . |
| 10 | Her qualification comes at the end of a two year distance learning course , during which time Irene had to attend Robert Gordon 's University for five days every three months , complete and pass six modules as well as writing a 10,000 word research based dissertation . |
| 11 | He was in charge of the casual wards as well as of all ‘ workhouse ’ inmates and ‘ test ’ workers — the latter being men sent on trial for twenty-four hours a week by the relieving officer . |
| 12 | I mean , doing shorthand for four hours a day , it 's too much ! |
| 13 | For best effect , Clairol recommend you treat yourself to some Cullutherapie for five minutes every day after a shower or bath when your muscles are relaxed and your skin is warm . |
| 14 | Six months after the Guardian article appeared , two and a half years after she was waved out of their hospital , South Manchester health authority finally agreed to supply a psychologist for two hours a week . |
| 15 | In 1985–86 , for example , Roehampton Institute engaged a headteacher to work with a college for six hours a week and ten other teachers for three hours a week . |
| 16 | ‘ To consider opening the college for seven days a week in this area is ridiculous , ’ said Mr Bainbridge . |
| 17 | If Lord 's has any thoughts for the anxiety felt by the families at the thought of England 's players running a gauntlet of violence for 11 weeks the tour should be called of . |
| 18 | It really would be worthwhile sitting through 2 services every Sunday just to get such fine teaching . |
| 19 | It was true that it followed close on a humiliation for British arms the loss of the fortress of Tobruk in North Africa and the withdrawal of the Eighth Army to the Egyptian frontier . |
| 20 | If the wretched woman had n't taken herself off to war work in a factory canteen for three times the money , or so she had said . |
| 21 | Where there is no tidal range wave attack is concentrated at the same level of the coast for twenty-four hours a day , but where the tidal range is great it may be spread over a vast foreshore zone and may only attack the foot of the cliffs for a very short period at each high tide . |
| 22 | This consists of : The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland The Chartered Association of Certified Accountants The Institute of Cost and Management Accountants The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy Although there is no legal requirement for companies to comply with SSAP9 , auditors will expect the financial accounts of companies to meet the guidelines laid down . |
| 23 | Before jumping from the window of her apartment , Hale had dressed meticulously in her most flattering dress , the corsage of yellow roses a gift from a male admirer . |
| 24 | In light of such assertions , claims by the USSR and the new DRA regime that Afghanistan remained non-aligned after the Karmal regime was installed by force of Soviet arms a few months later are disingenuous . |
| 25 | As peregrines have been known to dive at a speed of 180 miles an hour , they hit their prey with such force that they often break its neck , and sometimes even break the head clean off . |
| 26 | He told his colleagues about his great aunt 's Daimler , which had travelled at the ‘ sensible speed of thirty miles an hour ’ , and was sufficiently spacious to enable one to descend from it without removing one 's top hat . |
| 27 | It says if it was travelling at a constant speed of fifty miles an hour . |
| 28 | A fixed speed of sixty miles an hour . |
| 29 | Fixed speed of sixty miles an hour . |
| 30 | Once in the vagina it 's a different story , with the progress of the sperm reined in to an average speed of two feet every twenty-four hours . |